DenverPost.com Slow On Uptake with Headline 'Clinton Set to End Race
Earlier this morning the Associated Press's Beth Fouhy reported that Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) is gearing up to concede the Democratic nomination contest to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in a speech following primary election returns tonight.Not so fast, Clinton aides said, scrambling in short order to protest that Hillary is not going to throw in the towel tonight. Yet the Denver Post as of 1:10 p.…
Time Notes Argentine Prez's Falling Poll #s, Fails to Note She's Lefti
"A Meltdown for Argentina's Hillary" blares the teaser headline in the Top Stories slideshow on Time.com's front page."The fortunes of Argentina's new leader are falling even faster than those of the former First Lady she's been compared to," continues the caption on the front page. The June 2 article in question by Uki Goni delves into how President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has seen her…
ABC's Tapper Lampoons Messianic Portraiture of Obama
Just as a quick follow-up to both Terry Trippany and Warner Todd Huston's posts, at least one major political reporter is chagrined by the MSM's penchant for selecting photographs of Sen. Barack Obama that make him appear rather, um, messianic.From Jake Tapper's Political Punch blog at ABCNews.com:There is Born to You This Day in the City of Chicago a SaviorJune 02, 2008 10:19 AM And His name is…
AP: Vatican 'Slamming the Door' on Female Priests
[Update (16:33 EDT): The AP has changed its lede to read "The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated." (h/t Damian G. of Conservathink).]According to the Associated Press, the Vatican is "slamming the door on attempts by women to…
LAT Notices YouTube Mostly Harsh on McCain, Gauzy on Obama
Los Angeles Times staff writer James Rainey has an article today taking a look at the lack of love for John McCain on YouTube compared to the multiple hosannas found when searching for videos of the Obamessiah:Search "John McCain" on YouTube and you'll find the latest broadside, by Brave New Films of Culver City, and a lot more that's not good for a candidate who's built his reputation on…
Have Media FALN Down on the Job
Have the media fallen down on the job in pressing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) about her war on terrorism bona fides? If silence over the 1999 pardon of 16 FALN terrorists is any indication, yes. A Google News search for "Clinton FALN clemency" yielded but one result, this May 24 item from Politico's Ben Adler (emphasis mine):[Y]ou have to look back roughly a decade to find the last time Puerto…
Time Mag: Is McCain 'Ready for Prime Time
Team Obama: Ready for Prime Time? Aides who were lobbyists, preachers who are controversial, a murky message. Can Obama get back on course?Wow, who in the MSM wrote that story? No one. I simply replaced McCain with Obama in the front page teaser for a May 29 article by Time magazine's Michael Scherer.We need not belabor Obama's "murky message" and controversial preachers. And we've previously…
Left-leaning Journalism Group Admits McCain Gets Worse Media Treatment
Over the course of this presidential campaign, we've released a number of studies showing how the Democratic presidential candidates have received softer coverage compared to Republicans, it's refreshing to see however, when a left-leaning journalism foundation admits the truth as the Project for Excellence in Journalism did in a comprehensive study released today: If campaigns for president are…
First Quarter GDP Growth Up Higher Than Originally Thought
May 27: Paul R. La Monica for CNN Money reporting on Warren Buffett's belief that "we are already in a recession." Notice the lede: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's getting harder and harder to deny that the economy is in recession.May 29: The federal government releases an upward revision of the first quarter GDP growth. The ever-pessimistic AP reporter Martin Crutsinger grudgingly admitted that…
Despite Media, Buffett Recession Obsessions, 1Q Growth Revised Up
Matching predictions from Reuters and Bloomberg, the government's Bureau of Economic Analysis told us this morning that the economy grew at an upwardly-revised annualized rate of 0.9%. As I've said frequently, this is nowhere near acceptable. But it sure as heck isn't a recession.Initial reaction to the news by the Associated Press's Jeannine Aversa was unfortunately predictable (bolds are mine…
Revolving Door: Seattle News Anchor Joins Liberal Mayor's Staff
It's sort of like Linda Douglass but on the local level, I guess. I'll have to ask our Seattle-area readers to note in the comments section if KING's Robert Mak repeatedly displayed a penchant for gauzy coverage of liberal Mayor Greg Nickels (D). The 10-time local Emmy-winning reporter is leaving TV news for a job that pays $10,000 more a year than his new boss.From the Seattle Times (emphasis…
USNewser's Unconventional Take on Economy: Not As Bad As You Think
The media have been quick to paint the slow-growing economy as though it's in recession. Indeed, as our friends at the Business & Media Institute discovered, the MSM now is painting the economy much worse than the print media reported the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.But kudos are due U.S. News & World Report's Rick Newman for staking out a…
Will Media Report Obama's Claim His Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz
Seeing dead people in the audience wasn't Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's only gaffe on Monday, for it has now been revealed that he also spoke about an uncle "who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."American troops didn't liberate Auschwitz; Soviet troops did.According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (…
